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In memory of:

Private Melville Douglas Proud

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Military service

Service number: 651105
Age: 23
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade
Division: 1st
Birth: January 13, 1895
Death: August 7, 1918

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: A. 7.
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Son of William J. and Minnie Proud, of Tara, Ontario.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 488 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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BOVES WEST COMMUNAL CEMETERY Somme, France

Boves is a village about 9 kilometres south-east of Amiens on the west side of the road from Amiens to Moreuil. BOVES WEST COMMUNAL CEMETERY lies to the south of the village.

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